Bernie Ecclestone Vladimir Putin

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has doubled down on his backing of Russian president Vladimir Putin despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.The 91-year.

Either he pulls out or the other people surrender?” “I generally don’t know what he had in mind. I hope he also didn’t have in mind what’s actually happened. “They are speaking for our sport, but we are looking to go somewhere different and they are not representative of who we are now in the sport and where we are planning to go. “If we are looking to grow our audiences in places like the US and South Africa, we need to be giving the younger people a platform that is more representative of today’s time and who we are trying to be. “The idea that this is something he didn’t mean to do is, I think, for the birds.

BERNIE ECCLESTONE has been condemned for his bizarre comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Labour peer Lord Peter Hain telling Express.co.uk ...

And saying that: ‘This shouldn’t happen to other countries.'" Former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone is facing widespread criticism after saying he would "take a bullet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Discussing Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, Ecclestone added: "Unfortunately, he's like a lot of business people – certainly like me – that we make mistakes from time-to-time. “Why? We do not need to be supporting that but looking into the future. On Trump, he added: "He’s woken everybody up. He said: “Terrible to say this, I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was – in the way that he could command a lot of people – able to get things done.” "I mean, the other person in Ukraine (President Volodymyr Zelensky), I mean his profession I understand, he used to be a comedian and it seems he wants to continue that profession because I think if he had thought about things and made a big enough effort to speak to Mr Putin, who is a sensible person and would have listened to him and could have probably done something about it."

Bernie Ecclestone's car-crash interview on Thursday was discussed on the Good Morning Britain sofa on Friday morning, with guests Jacqui Smith and Ed Vaizy ...

Discussing Putin and his invasion of Russia's neighbouring country, Bernie said: "Unfortunately, he's like a lot of business person - certainly like me - that we make mistakes from time-to-time. Id' rather he didn't hurt, but I'd still take a bullet for him." I don’t know quite on what basis he was doing that interview.

Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says as far as he's concerned Russian President Vladimir Putin “is a good guy”. “He's never done anything that I ...

“I don’t regret my feeling for him that he’s not the person that he’s been portrayed.” Mr Ecclestone replied by saying, “I think that’s terrible”. “He’s never done anything that I would feel he’s not the right guy to be talking to,” Mr Ecclestone told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan in a wide-ranging interview.